Miscera basichrysa (Lower, 1916) (one synonym: Sagalassa poecilota Turner, 1923) BRACHODIDAE,   SESIOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

These adult moths have dark brown forewings. The hindwings are dark brown, each with a large yellow spot near the middle. The head and thorax are dark brown, and the abdomen has alternating rings of yellow and brown. The wingspan is about 1.6 cms.

The species has been found in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptions of new Australian Micro-lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 40 (1916), p. 541.

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(written 7 November 2022, updated 13 November 2022)